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Post by acidohm on Apr 7, 2024 18:59:02 GMT
So, who in the States is going to be in a location to view this tomorrow, and is anyone excited to be seeing it!?
Boy, Missouri is looking good š
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 7, 2024 19:15:56 GMT
My wife and I are at our cabin in upstate NY. We should be able to see ~98% totality if itās not cloudy.
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Post by acidohm on Apr 7, 2024 20:50:35 GMT
Cloudy can be good for a partial Blu, saves needing glasses if cover is just right.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 7, 2024 20:58:26 GMT
My wife and I are at our cabin in upstate NY. We should be able to see ~98% totality if itās not cloudy. About 90% here with clear sunny skies forecast. Got my glasses still from the last total eclipse some years back. The deck has a clear southern view. |
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Post by Sigurdur on Apr 8, 2024 3:30:53 GMT
I am on my way back to ND. Anticipated staying in Arkansas long enough to observe the total eclipse.
Wellll, going to start shipping seed Monday morning. I battled wind and traffic slowdowns because of accidents. Had wanted to get home Sunday night, played out and won't make it until late Monday morning. Hopefully my crew will do a good job until I get there. Downside is, I will miss the total eclipse.
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 8, 2024 12:41:17 GMT
Isnāt it interestingā¦a moon that is about 400 X smaller in diameter than a star that is about 400 X farther away to provide the necessary conditions for a perfect solar eclipse for a blue planet with āintelligentā life to witness it. Coincidence?
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 8, 2024 13:32:11 GMT
Isnāt it interestingā¦a moon that is about 400 X smaller in diameter than a star that is about 400 X farther away to provide the necessary conditions for a perfect solar eclipse for a blue planet with āintelligentā life to witness it. Coincidence? New Sci-Fi (?) movie ... Second Warning. Seven years later over Middle Earth. Almost exact placement. Two thousand years later, the new temple priests appear to be just as corrupt as the first and second. "Intelligent" life? We will see.
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 8, 2024 13:37:56 GMT
Isnāt it interestingā¦a moon that is about 400 X smaller in diameter than a star that is about 400 X farther away to provide the necessary conditions for a perfect solar eclipse for a blue planet with āintelligentā life to witness it. Coincidence? New Sci-Fi (?) movie ... Second Warning.Ā Seven years later over Middle Earth.Ā Almost exact placement.Ā Two thousand years later, the new temple priests appear to be just as corrupt as the first and second.Ā "Intelligent"Ā life?Ā We will see.Ā
I put intelligent in quotes for a reason MoāBoyš |
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Post by duwayne on Apr 8, 2024 14:55:53 GMT
So, who in the States is going to be in a location to view this tomorrow, and is anyone excited to be seeing it!? Boy, Missouri is looking good š I'm in the full eclipse path in Ohio 20 miles south of Cleveland. We've had cloudy weather for 3 days, but the sky is just now clearing. According to the forecasts it should be clear by eclipse time at 3pm. Then it's clouds again for 3 days.
There has been a lot of excitement here concerning the eclipse. There is an amazing influx of people from around the country.
While looking for a prediction for sky conditions, I came across the website below. It's turning out to be very accurate.
If you want to predict a sunny period for planting or golfing, it looks like a good source.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 8, 2024 18:33:48 GMT
Two-thirds covered here. Temperature drop noticeable. Don't have a thermometer -damn. Bees don't care and continue to feed. Question for the physicists. Marta took two pictures at 2/3 cover.
Shadow does not show up, Full seemingly undiminished solar disk on images. I'm sure there is a good explanation.
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Post by acidohm on Apr 8, 2024 18:34:18 GMT
Isnāt it interestingā¦a moon that is about 400 X smaller in diameter than a star that is about 400 X farther away to provide the necessary conditions for a perfect solar eclipse for a blue planet with āintelligentā life to witness it. Coincidence? Yes, because as none of these celestial bodies remain consistently at the same distances apart, it didn't used to happen, and won't again in the future. (We're in a window where the distances/sizes align, moon used to be closer to earth and is moving away from earth) Actually, maybe that makes it more of a coincidence.... |
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 8, 2024 19:55:50 GMT
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Post by duwayne on Apr 8, 2024 20:34:09 GMT
Watching the eclipse was almost like watching a man-made video. Through the eclipse glasses everything was perfect with the sun in a black sky slowly disappearing and reappearing. I took my eclipse glasses off at the full eclipse and saw the perfect corona. Unfortunately the pictures my wife and I took through our I-Phones were not as sharp and there was some glare in the pictures, maybe due to some very wispy high clouds that were barely visible to the naked eye and the imperfect focus from the small lens. The temperature dropped about 8 degrees per my rough observations. It got darker than I expected right at the moment of full eclipse and I could just make out the golf flag 100 yards from my house. Although it was an amazing sight to see the sun completely disappear, I'm still surprised at the huge numbers of people who flocked to our area from 100's of miles away to see a full eclipse rather than a partial eclipse.
The last full eclipse in Ohio was in 1806 if I read correctly.
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Post by blustnmtn on Apr 8, 2024 20:50:58 GMT
It was quite cloudy in upstate New York. We were able to watch with pin hole viewer and then look directly at it through peak. It got fairly dark and the temperature dropped quite noticeably but I didnāt think to check my digital thermometer.š¤
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Post by duwayne on Apr 8, 2024 21:18:53 GMT
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